Farmworkers

Having to be father and mother to my two children, it was not easy. I cried many times, but I also laughed a lot with them

A Single Mother

...I am a fighter, a woman who likes to help other women, especially farmworker women who need to know about their rights, and become a bridge that helps enforce their social, economic, political and human rights.

My Life Through My Arrival

To be able to help my children not be without, I used to leave the jobs where I was being harassed and I used to move on to other jobs where I thought I would not receive harassment.  But, it seemed that all of them agreed to do the same thing....

Sexual Harassment and Domestic Violence

He used to tell me “I want to share a little bit of my life with you.  I’ve suffered a lot, I saw my mother suffer.”  I said, “You’re repeating what I told you about my life or something like that.” 

My Life

If someone were to ask me,  “How it is that the fruit is grown, so beautifully, that are strawberries?” What it is to pick out the seedling, clean it up, and choose good seedlings.  How it is to plant seedlings and how to take care of the plant so that those strawberries grow.  How to pick strawberries:  what it is to work in the cannery; make juice; for shampoo, for everything.  To do everything, I’ve done every kind of work there is to be had with strawberries.

My Childhood

Thank you God for allowing me to be who I am and how I am.  Letting me swim and giving me the strength to learn, even against the flow, and to share my madness with more crazy women like me, who know how to go everywhere, but more importantly who know where they don’t want to return.  KeAku Mahalo Ohana.

It’s Me

I supported them, modestly, but I did make sure they had a good education in life and I feel proud of that, because I was, as people say, a single mother twice.

Working For My Family

I studied nursing and I was able to help my children to move forward....

Migrant Woman